Oh I know where your coming from, but I already deal with most of those situations
For the roll out of 50+ machines we use Ghost and a PXE booted image (assuming x86 machines).
At the university where I work we support about 50 labs (actually I support authentication gateways, not the actuall labs boxxen), there's not a floppy in site. Zip's for drivers and the aforementioned Ghost.
As far as payroll goes, *NOTHING* that runs payroll depends on floppies (Sparc, RS/6000, etc)... I support about 20 - 25 non x86 unix boxxes and about 45 OpenBSD and Linux boxxes... Again floppies optional.
So, no, seriously, in a large production environment, labs and administrative systems, we haven't used a floppy for anything but a coaster in years
I think the key is actually that x86 boxxes are the only ones even pretending to be still tied to floppies. (Yeah, I've installed AIX from floppies, but that was the early 90's:)
Well, considering 746W is about 1.0HP I don't fscking blame him for not being able to produce that for an hour (of course he probably can process 40lbs. of food an hour either...:)
Get an Antex SX1000 case, put the four face fans in and it'll stay up for weeks... Under heavy load (pvmpovray) mine sit at about 48C, at idle they are 38C or 39C... Case temp is ~10C less then CPU temps... Ditto while playing castle wolf (LOVE the Radeon 8500 AIW, great in X (cvs), great in doze, great video capture, etc)
Oh, uh, for what it matters Linux 2.4.14 with the mostly stock pvm patched povray in debian-unstable. And a pair of XP1600+, Still running the board at BIOS 1.02 since I haven't seen any problems... Longest uptime, 2 weeks.. (Damn games.:)
They do! These guys have them for $99(USD?). They appear to have both buckling spring (clicky keyboards that have good tactile feedback), and "Enhanced Quiet Touch" i.e. the soft spongy ones that aren't as nice for typing (yeah yeah, I'm biased.:)
I've dealt with them in the past (I got 4 keyboards in total from them) and they've been great.
Which is all well and good, except there endangering all of the people *NOT* involved in the crime that are around. That's why it's *illegal*, even if it's often ignored.
*I* don't want to be the one they are hiding behind, they took the job, and shouldn't use me as a human shield
Identd *ISN'T* for the IRC admin, it's for the admin on the sending end. IF you have a machine on the client end that's multiuser (say a box serving shell accounts), identd info (from the IRC server you attacked) can be slightly useful in pinning down which luser on the client was the idiot.
Granted if your stuck on a single user client it dosen't make as much sense, but how's the IRC admin supposed to know that:)
Ah but there not insisting that a corporation respect competing products. They're asking a MONOPOLY to back down. The anti-trust laws can and will enforce actions such as making MS's next big OS play nice with others. (See the DOJ injunction against IBM for an example)
Hmm, my experience is partially different from yours. Debian works great on my servers, my workstations and my laptop. This is coming from a Sony VAIO F360, the 3 workstations I end up using in a week are 2 twin processor P3-550's and a P2-450. I only regret with Debian so far is that I haven't had spare hardware from other platforms to try it with:).
Also, Debian sucks at ease of automated custom builds from source. For many people this is an issue, including me-- I typically need to setup packages with the precise options I want, and Debian makes it much tougher than BSD.
Just to reply to pary of this, I find deb just as easy for modifying source.. "apt-get source wget". Modify, build, and dpkg -i wget-whatever-level-it-is.deb.
Heh, except of course you can't run *any* operating system. They've taken a few shortcuts that mean you can't boot unsupported OS's in many cases. (For example OS/2).
Uh, there dabbling to the extent of modifing there primary OS and associating Linux with it, making sure the words Linux compatibility exist with almost every line of computer that they make. (S/390^H^H^H^H^HZ90's, AS400's, RS/6000's, PC's, laptops, etc)...
To change nearly every line of computer, and much of your software (VAJ, Homesite, et al.) sounds like a bit more then dabbling.
Uh, AFS has compiled and run well (under load) for me on Linux 2.2, Solaris 2.6 & 7, and AIX 4.2 and 4.3. Follow the instructions in the readme closely and it'll work. (Except for Linux. There's a typo in the README where LINUX_VERSION should be replaced with LINUX_VERS)
Heh, nope, TELUS didn't get the deal, Bell did. So now we get to get screwed over by a whole new phone company.
It's not that TELUS sucks, (that goes without saying), but it's that they suck hard enough to leave a technical vacuum any place they touch, that's the real kicker.
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Windows 95?
For only mere hundreds (or thousands if you want the REALLY cool ones) you can upgrade Windows 95 (the only OS you'll ever need) to:
I mean really, there are so many ways of getting screwed, err, upgraded!
And of course, an upgraded turd is still a turd. :)
Or run something like SNORT, to watch for teltales about the protocol (connect strings, etc) and kill it regardless of the port...
Oh I know where your coming from, but I already deal with most of those situations
For the roll out of 50+ machines we use Ghost and a PXE booted image (assuming x86 machines).
At the university where I work we support about 50 labs (actually I support authentication gateways, not the actuall labs boxxen), there's not a floppy in site. Zip's for drivers and the aforementioned Ghost.
As far as payroll goes, *NOTHING* that runs payroll depends on floppies (Sparc, RS/6000, etc)... I support about 20 - 25 non x86 unix boxxes and about 45 OpenBSD and Linux boxxes... Again floppies optional.
So, no, seriously, in a large production environment, labs and administrative systems, we haven't used a floppy for anything but a coaster in years
I think the key is actually that x86 boxxes are the only ones even pretending to be still tied to floppies. (Yeah, I've installed AIX from floppies, but that was the early 90's :)
I guess that's why I never have tech's work on my machines :)
I haven't have a floppy in my last 3 machines... (4 years?)
Well, considering 746W is about 1.0HP I don't fscking blame him for not being able to produce that for an hour (of course he probably can process 40lbs. of food an hour either... :)
You think it'll take any more or less time to learn the HP stuff?
Get an Antex SX1000 case, put the four face fans in and it'll stay up for weeks... Under heavy load (pvmpovray) mine sit at about 48C, at idle they are 38C or 39C... Case temp is ~10C less then CPU temps... Ditto while playing castle wolf (LOVE the Radeon 8500 AIW, great in X (cvs), great in doze, great video capture, etc)
Oh, uh, for what it matters Linux 2.4.14 with the mostly stock pvm patched povray in debian-unstable. And a pair of XP1600+, Still running the board at BIOS 1.02 since I haven't seen any problems... Longest uptime, 2 weeks.. (Damn games. :)
Heck yeah, my Dad and I replaced the 8088 in our PC junior with a NEC V20 at about 6mHz! Now THOSE were the days :)
They do! These guys have them for $99(USD?). They appear to have both buckling spring (clicky keyboards that have good tactile feedback), and "Enhanced Quiet Touch" i.e. the soft spongy ones that aren't as nice for typing (yeah yeah, I'm biased. :)
I've dealt with them in the past (I got 4 keyboards in total from them) and they've been great.
Which is all well and good, except there endangering all of the people *NOT* involved in the crime that are around. That's why it's *illegal*, even if it's often ignored.
*I* don't want to be the one they are hiding behind, they took the job, and shouldn't use me as a human shield
Identd *ISN'T* for the IRC admin, it's for the admin on the sending end. IF you have a machine on the client end that's multiuser (say a box serving shell accounts), identd info (from the IRC server you attacked) can be slightly useful in pinning down which luser on the client was the idiot.
Granted if your stuck on a single user client it dosen't make as much sense, but how's the IRC admin supposed to know that :)
Ah but there not insisting that a corporation respect competing products. They're asking a MONOPOLY to back down. The anti-trust laws can and will enforce actions such as making MS's next big OS play nice with others. (See the DOJ injunction against IBM for an example)
Ah, but if you don't like what GM is bundling with the car, you can go down the street to a competitor (buy an Acura).
With MS's embrace extend, buy them out and destory them policy, there IS no competitor.
Errr, or you don't know what the heck your talking about... Try this or google
Heheh, good enough troll that I'm going to take it... How many copies of MacOSX (BSD) have been sold?
Wow, he impersonated people? He kicked people when they were down?
You're probably the most cowardly person I've *EVER* seen on slashdot.
Hmm, my experience is partially different from yours. Debian works great on my servers, my workstations and my laptop. This is coming from a Sony VAIO F360, the 3 workstations I end up using in a week are 2 twin processor P3-550's and a P2-450. I only regret with Debian so far is that I haven't had spare hardware from other platforms to try it with :).
Hmm, wierd, I'm on Shaw in Edmonton, Alberta, and I get ~500-600kB/sec down and around 200k/sec up. (Yeah, k Bytes, not bits).
Keeping his customers happy?
Also, Debian sucks at ease of automated custom builds from source. For many people this is an issue, including me-- I typically need to setup packages with the precise options I want, and Debian makes it much tougher than BSD.
Just to reply to pary of this, I find deb just as easy for modifying source.. "apt-get source wget". Modify, build, and dpkg -i wget-whatever-level-it-is.deb.
Heh, except of course you can't run *any* operating system. They've taken a few shortcuts that mean you can't boot unsupported OS's in many cases. (For example OS/2).
Uh, there dabbling to the extent of modifing there primary OS and associating Linux with it, making sure the words Linux compatibility exist with almost every line of computer that they make. (S/390^H^H^H^H^HZ90's, AS400's, RS/6000's, PC's, laptops, etc)...
To change nearly every line of computer, and much of your software (VAJ, Homesite, et al.) sounds like a bit more then dabbling.
Uh, I think IBM made a bit more then $10 last year....
Uh, AFS has compiled and run well (under load) for me on Linux 2.2, Solaris 2.6 & 7, and AIX 4.2 and 4.3. Follow the instructions in the readme closely and it'll work. (Except for Linux. There's a typo in the README where LINUX_VERSION should be replaced with LINUX_VERS)
Heh, nope, TELUS didn't get the deal, Bell did. So now we get to get screwed over by a whole new phone company.
It's not that TELUS sucks, (that goes without saying), but it's that they suck hard enough to leave a technical vacuum any place they touch, that's the real kicker.